SJS Teaser week AC2

Summer Learning Task: Pepeha

Is it fair? Pay Equity

Fiao’o Fa’amausili was the captain of the New Zealand (NZ) Black Ferns, our national women’s rugby team, until 2018. The Black Ferns have been a very successful team, winning the Women’s Rugby World Cup a record five times. Wow! 

Despite this success, the Black Ferns have only recently become ‘professional’ rugby players who are paid to play rugby. Although they are paid, the Black Ferns make less money than members of the men’s professional rugby team - the All Blacks. This difference in pay is often called the ‘gender pay gap’ and it is not uncommon in sports.

I think this may be a bit sexist but the men's rugby is more popular, so I'm not quite sure.
and I think that the men in rugby play better and harder than the women's rugby.
More people watch men's rugby, that means that people pay more to get tickets, so I kind of think that the men should get paid more.